Good morning/evening all!! A quote for daily reading. =0)

Why good morning and happy Saturday to all of you incredible individuals I call friends. =0) I do hope everyone had a great start of a weekend last night with some great people. Shared some stories, had some laughs and enjoyed some great food. I stumbled across this one this morning and was thinking how great it fits into this website. How are you taking the criticism or information you are given from others. What do you do with it? Do you sit there going "Well how do they know" or "I cant believe they said that to me" No one on here are experts nor does anyone claim to be. We are all on here to help each other in the same way. We are all unpolished diamonds searching for the help from each other to be the greatest and to accomplish our goals, the same goals we have together. So next you get upset because someone said something to you. Just take it and polish your diamond with it and move on. No one is here to make you feel bad, just to make you feel healthy. Cheers everyone!! Much love!

Unpolished Diamond

How a person reacts to criticism often means the difference between success and failure. Take the case of Ole Bull, the famous Norwegian violinist of the past century.

His practical father, a chemist, sent him to the University of Christiania to study for the ministry and forbade him to play his beloved violin. He promptly flunked out and, defying his father, devoted all his time and energy to the violin. Unfortunately, though he had great ability, his teachers were relatively unskilled, so that by the time he was ready to start his concert tour he wasn't prepared.

In Italy a Milan newspaper critic wrote: "He is an untrained musician. If he be a diamond, he is certainly in the rough and unpolished."

There were two ways Ole Bull could have reacted to that criticism. He could have let it make him angry, or he could learn from it. Fortunately he chose the latter. He went to the newspaper office and asked to see the critic. The astounded editor introduced him. Ole spent the evening with the 70-year-old critic, asked about his faults, and sought the older man's advice on how to correct them.

Then he canceled the rest of his tour, returned home, and spent the next six months studying under really able teachers. He practiced hours upon hours to overcome his faults. Finally, he returned to his concerts and, when only 26, became the sensation of Europe.

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